Program areas at Virginia Mason Memorial
Outpatient services. During 2022, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (yvmh) performed 297,267 outpatient visits for surgery, cancer care, diagnostic testing and various other therapeutic services. Those outpatient services were offered in a manner consistent with the Hospital's 501(c)(3) status, including charity care to qualifying patients per the Hospital's charity care policy. In 2022, yvmh provided charity care for 28,614 outpatient visits, totaling $30,092,550. (continued on schedule o. )yvmh's oncology programs delivered charity care services 1,698 times in 2022. Children's village, based in Yakima, is a clinic that provides healthcare services for children with special needs. The facility also houses the nurse family partnership, a program that provides specially trained nurses to help first-time mothers during pregnancy and until the child's second birthday. These programs provided the charity care and unreimbursed medical services. Maternal health services provides community-based programs and services focused on providing preventative health and education for families throughout central Washington. Yvmh's pain management clinic saw 782 patient encounters which fell under yvmh's charity care criteria. Memorial's 'ohana clinic provides breast health education, screening and diagnostic mammography, and breast care coordination for women in the Yakima Valley. Charity care funded 962 encounters with 'ohana providers in 2022. Yvmh provided 1,064 patient encounters with charity care in outpatient surgery in 2022. Yakima Valley Memorial's wound management services combines traditional practices and medicines for wound healing with technology, such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy. These services are offered to patients who have undergone 30 days of conventional wound treatment without significant improvement. In 2022, 395 of those encounters were performed under charity care assistance. With one of the busiest emergency departments in the state of Washington, our providers are trained in emergency medicine and treated 90,053 patients a year regardless of age, culture, employment, ethnicity, expression, gender identity, language, national origin, participation in programs, physical or mental disability, race, color, religion, services and activities, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or financial status. The emergency department provides for patients' emergent needs; and, all patients presenting to the emergency department are examined by a trained provider. Yvmh's emergency department experienced 7,814 patient encounters with charity care recipients in 2022, for a total of $13,687,521. Yakima Valley Memorial served 15,899 charity care patients with additional outpatient services. These services include: cardiac rehab, education, infusion care, laboratory, physician's offices, outpatient procedures, pre-procedure testing, sleep studies, therapy, x-ray and imaging, and cardiovascular care.
Supporting service. Yakima Valley Memorial provides additional supportive services to serve the health care needs of the community that do not directly align as either inpatient or outpatient services. These supportive services were offered in a manner consistent with the Hospital's 501(c)(3) status. These supportive services include educational services for student physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, support of the community health of central Washington (chcw) medical residency program 33 residents, a pre-surgery clinic, nursing float pool, business development, and information technology and systems.
Inpatient services. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (yvmh) Hospital admitted 650 patients that qualified for charity care, for a total of 3,077 patient days. These inpatient charity care encounters amounted to $3,767,928. Charity care was provided per the terms of the Hospital's charity care policy. Inpatient services includes obstetrics & gynecology (obgyn), pediatrics, psychiatric services, emergency department (ed), Hospital imaging, hospital-based physician services, critical care, orthopedics, cardiovascular care, cancer care, anesthesiology, respiratory therapy, and pharmacy. (continued on schedule o. )in 2022, yvmh's ob/gyn department provided charity care to patients for pre-delivery testing and obstetric emergency care. Yvmh's inpatient psychiatric services treats adult patients for a broad spectrum of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, add/adhd, and major psychiatric illness. Inpatient psychiatric services also offers psychiatric evaluation and medication management, in addition to treatment of underlying medical conditions.